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The world is in landscape so what possesses people using phones to constantly take portrait images of cars and mountains and houses? It makes no sense to me.

Lazy people who want to use only one hand to hold their camera thing. You can hold them sideways with one hand too, but it's awkward. Otherwise you need two hands, and that's just tooooo inconvenient. Actually, I think portrait-mode movies are far more atrocious.

I didn't read the article but this is something the phones and other devices should of never implemented. They should of been storing the raw files with the correct orientation. As the article pointed out it's not just a phpBB issue and can lead to all kinds of problems. If you are using older editor for example that doesn't support it suppose you flip the image. If the EXIF is unedited when you view it in software that does support it now it's flipped the wrong way again....

[edit] I just tested again, and the fix was just the update of plupload to v2.3.6, the edit to the php file is not needed (and perhaps not desirable).

This is fantastic if plupload has addressed the problem! Thanks for sharing. There is an extension which will implement the EXIF rotation data where image resizing is not implemented in the ACP, but that doesn't work where plupload is involved.

Is it possible to explain what is required to manually replace the plupload component of phpBB to the newer version? I can see where at least one of the files that ships with plupload is located within phpbb (FORUM/assets/plupload/plupload.full.min.js - which shows I'm running v2.3.3]. Is that it?

Is it possible to explain what is required to manually replace the plupload component of phpBB to the newer version? I can see where at least one of the files that ships with plupload is located within phpbb (FORUM/assets/plupload/plupload.full.min.js - which shows I'm running v2.3.3]. Is that it?

Yes, that is the file to replace with the corresponding file from the plupload release 2.3.6. Simple.

The new version (2.3.6) of plupload should now be included in the phpBB v3.2.4 release.

Hmmm. Hasn't exactly worked for me. I replaced FORUM/assets/plupload/plupload.full.min.js with the new v.2.3.6.

But, the attachments don't render in post with the correct orientation. However, if you open the direct URL of the uploaded image in a new tab it is correctly oriented. The means the EXIF data is just being retained and properly interpreted by the browser, but not phpBB.

Now, looking into it further, since replacing with plupload 2.3.6, all attachments retain their complete EXIF data, including GPS coordinates. This was not the case previously and EXIF was stripped (which is a good thing!)

The preserve headers false option can be used to strip EXIF but i didn't actually have this flag before. I had an unmodified plupload.php.

I have tried changing max image dimensions to zero, and same result (but obviously image size then isn't reduced). Then, to ensure i hadn't changed something manually into the past, i went and replaced phpbb/plupload/plupload.php with the version that shipped with my forum download package (v.3.2.2). No change.

Keypro, I put a picture from iPad but under Firefox in Windows. Before updating the file plupload.full.min.js it was wrong (like 1st picture here), at the moment is ok. But my user wrote to me that when he putting a photo directly from the iPad, it is still wrong I have to check it on the iPad/iPhone.

Is it possible that the image published from the iPad displays wrong, and the same image published from another system displays correctly? It seems impossible.

But, the attachments don't render in post with the correct orientation. However, if you open the direct URL of the uploaded image in a new tab it is correctly oriented. The means the EXIF data is just being retained and properly interpreted by the browser, but not phpBB.

Plupload only handles the full size image it doesn't handle the thumbnail.